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Disclaimer: I am not a member of organizations within the Divine 9 also known as the National Pan-Hellenic Council although I have family and friends that are memebers. They have shared their experinces with me and have expressed their love for their organizations. This post is dedicated to the women of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. Congratulations on celebrating 98 years. The mages you see are members of the organization.

On January 13, 1913 at Howard University 22 undergraduate students founded the sorority known Delta Sigma Theta. These 22 young women were previously iniated into Alpha Kappa Alpha but there was a huge disagreement that brought about change keep in mind the word "Delta" means change.Seven officers were elected: Myra Davis Hemmings, president; Ethel Cuff Black, vice-president, Edith Mott Young, secretary; Jessie McGuire Dent, corresponding secretary, Winona Cargile Alexander, custodian; Frederica Chase Dodd, sergeant-at-arms, and Pauline Oberdorfer Minor was the treasurer. The twenty-two were dismayed at progress and wanted to reorganize the sorority. 

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The new initiates wanted to establish a national organization, enlarge the scope of the sorority's activities, change its name to reflect a true purpose, as they felt Alpha Kappa Alpha was solely a female derivative of Alpha Phi Alpha with no true meaning, change the symbols, change the sorority colors to those with purpose, and be more politically oriented.

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So Who Are The Founders? Osceola McCarthy Adams,  Marguerite Young Alexander,  Winona Cargile Alexander, Ethel Cuff Black , Bertha Pitts Campbell,  Zephyr Chisom Carter, Edna Brown Coleman,  Jessie McGuire Dent,  Frederica Chase Dodd,  Myra Davis Hemmings, Olive C. Jones,  Jimmie Bugg Middleton,  Pauline Oberdorfer Minor,  Vashti Turley Murphy, Naomi Sewell Richardson, Mamie Reddy Rose, Eliza Pearl Shippen,
Florence Letcher Toms, Ethel Carr Watson, Wertie Blackwell Weaver,  Madree Penn White, and  Edith Motte Young.




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 The women of Delta Sigma Theta partcipated in the Womens Suffrage March back in 1913. The organization has many expansion programs such as the follwoing May Week, National Library Project, Job Analysis and Opportunity Project.

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At my school Western Kentucky University the Eta Zeta Delta Sigma Theta Chapter was chartered  March 14, 1970 at Western Kentucky University by 14 phenomenal women. These charter members, also known as the WANDS (WE ALL NEED DELTA), had been functioning together since March 1969 to get a chapter started at Western.

WKU Eta Zeta Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta

These willing young women began their journey by approaching the Dean of Student Life with the idea of starting a chapter on campus, but the Dean told these ladies there was one sorority already on campus and there was no need for another one. These ladies, determined with their minds made up for Delta, fought for what they believed in and in 1970, the chapter to be known as Eta Zeta was finally established. They are also the 2 time Step Show Champions in 2008 and 2009 and lost the title in 2010 to Alpha Kappa Alpha. Some say it was because of the anniversay curse the chapter has celebrated 40 years of exsistance on WKU's campus.